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Fake History und Social Media

Public History - Angewandte Geschichte - Band 28

In den letzten Jahren hat sich in den sozialen Medien eine digitale 'Fake History' etabliert. Sie stellt die fakten- und quellenbasierte Darstellung und Vermittlung von Geschichte infrage. Immer öfter ent…

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Lan A Li
Body Maps

A historical and cultural study of how representing invisible anatomical structures has reshaped our understanding of human anatomy.In Body Maps , Lan A. Li unveils a rich history of the hidden landscapes…

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE CENTURY * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIME ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOKUpdated with FOUR NEW MAJOR CHAPTERS i…

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE CENTURY * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIME ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOKUpdated with FOUR NEW MAJOR CHAPTERS i…

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Nana Osei Quarshie
African Pharmakon

Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics of who gets to stay and who must be cast out.For centuries, mental distress in West Africa h…

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Histories of Disability in Latin America

Reframing disability, power, and identity in Latin America's complex histories.

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Holly Fletcher
Body Size in Early Modern Germany

Body Size in Early Modern Germany uncovers the significance of fatness and thinness in early modern German society and culture. It explores how early modern people conceived of fat and thin bodies, in ter…

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Karen Bloom Gevirtz
The Apothecary's Wife

"A lively medical, scientific, and economic history."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Best Nonfiction Books of 2024, Kirkus Reviews"A timely reminder that the current greed-based healthcar…

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Edna Bonhomme
A History of the World in Six Plagues

"Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout histor…

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Richard Conniff
Ending Epidemics

How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases---and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard …

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Susan Armstrong-Reid
Behead and Cure

Behead and Cure explores the ethics of humanitarianism during the Vietnam War through the experiences of medical teams from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. It brings civilian women, who…

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Lucy Inglis
Born

*An Amazon Editors' Picks: Best History books of October*A groundbreaking history of childbirth filled with medical, political, and social triumphs, Born is the story of how we give birth set against the …

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Michael Bliss
Plague

In January 1885, as the people of Montreal celebrated one of the greatest winter carnivals of the century, a deadly epidemic inched its way through the city streets. When the case of a railway porter suff…

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The Health Humanities in German Studies

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work …

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Beth Linker
Slouch

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America---from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture"In 1995, a scandal erupt…

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Alanna Skuse
The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack

Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how notto die in the Renaissance'An entertaining history of medicine... Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.…

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Ketil Slagstad
Standardizing Sex

"A history of trans medicine that uses Scandinavian sources to tell a global story. Standardizing Sex traces the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia in the twentieth century, exploring the con…

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Jason Rodriquez
On the Frontlines of Crisis

On the Frontlines of Crisis by Jason Rodriquez is a powerful and deeply human account of the experiences of healthcare workers during one of the most harrowing periods in modern history---the COVID-19 pan…

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Meredith Reifschneider
The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare

In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that…

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Jason Rodriquez
On the Frontlines of Crisis

On the Frontlines of Crisis is a powerful and deeply human account of the experiences of healthcare workers during one of the most harrowing periods in modern history---the COVID-19 pandemic. As hospitals…

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